Follow-up to the XPostFacto Mountain Lion Story
If you’re catching this article via search engines, it’s a follow-up to my previous article on the potential for Mountain Lion to run on machines below the system requirements. Media reports are now that the graphics chipset — not the kernel — are what is holding up Mountain Lion on older Macs. OpenGL 4 support [...]
Looking for Drag Lock on Your New MacBook Air or Pro?
Apple often rearranges keystrokes, trackpad options, and keyboard controls after releasing a new version of Mac OS X. These “benefits” are rolled in to new Mac models, and eventually become the new standard, at least typically. And I don’t mean to say that these new features aren’t benefits. Apple takes full advantage of new hardware, [...]
XPostFacto for Mountain Lion Could Bring Faster Old Macs to Life
Apple’s requirement of a 64-bit kernel for Mac OS X Mountain Lion is going to draw ire from many in the Mac community. Stretching back to 2006, many Mac owners were concerned that their EFI Firmware only supported a 32-bit kernel. This was known as EFI32, with the 64-bit EFI known as, you guessed it, [...]
Support Boot Camp, Download Drivers on Each Install
One major change in OS X Lion is the addition of downloading Windows 7 Boot Camp drivers over the web. It’s something I’ve called for, for a really… really… really… long time. One nice thing about this feature (for Apple) is that it now allows Apple to get something it did not have before: usage [...]
Apple Drops Mac from Mac OS X Lion
Apple has made a subtle late change to the branding for Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion”. If you look at Apple Support Documents, and the Apple product pages, they refer to the product as “OS X Lion“. Not “Mac OS X Lion” or “Mac OS 10.7″, simply “OS X Lion”. Note that this title lacks [...]
On Steve Jobs
My interactions with Steve were typically very brief, mostly (thankfully not always) through intermediaries… friends, emails, and even campaigns. I did get much closer than most ever did, and I got to talk to him more than most ever dream. It brightens my day when he acknowledged (once or twice) that I was right. And, [...]
Seagate Momentus XT Firmware Update SD28 Released
Seagate has issued a new firmware update for Momentus XT owners, version SD28. If you are a Momentus XT owner (like myself), you can breath a sigh of relief and update immediately… after backing up, of course. This firmware update will hopefully, hopefully tie up some painful loose ends that have stifled the life (thus [...]
Why Intel & Canonical Should Make A Deal for Ubuntu MeeGo
For those of you living under a rock, I’ll prime this article with the information that you should already know. One, there’s a Linux-based platform called MeeGo. Two, it was formed by a partnership between Intel and Nokia. Three, Nokia bailed on it after Microsoft gave them a billion in cash and resources. Four, MeeGo [...]
iCloud’s Beta: More of the same?
I will start this article by saying that we don’t know everything that will be in iCloud just yet. However, I will say that I am disappointed at the pricing that has emerged on other web sites (here’s just one for example). At double the pricing for Amazon’s Cloud Drive, I can’t say I’ll be [...]
Mac OS X Lion Using OpenCL Graphics to Optimize Archives
Awhile back I blogged about Mac OS X offering newer Mac owners the opportunity to finally download a full set of their Boot Camp drivers, right off the web. Unfortunately, as I noted, older Mac owners were just given a generic error. Lion appears to have fixed that. But, it also brought something really cool [...]
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